Is There a Consequence in Sleep?

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If we reproduced the brain into something else, there would be a break in the activity. You'd have to jump start the activity. The activity might end up being similar, but you would not be able to guarantee the same activity. Maybe like witty allen said, a yes, i don't wat to live on through my work. I want to live on in my apartment. It's that continuity from one moment to the next. If there's a break in it. Well, let's think about this for a second. If you're chronically frozend, and somehow they, they thaw you out and warm you up and you and you come alive, like frankenste

Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.

Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.